Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting

PO Box 115900
FL 32611

Rolling

Oct 16, 2026

Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting

Position:
Full-time, 9-month tenure track, promotion-accruing faculty position

Date of Expected Hire:
August 16, 2027

Salary: $68,000-$70,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

The School of Theatre + Dance seeks an Assistant Professor of Movement & Acting with a specialization in movement and physical approaches to actor training. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate students, with primary responsibility for movement training that develops the actor’s physical, expressive, and embodied skills. The candidate will also teach undergraduate and graduate stage combat courses in a variety of theatrical weapon styles and may teach acting courses and professional development labs.

Additional teaching responsibilities may include non-majors courses such as Oral Interpretation of Literature, and courses in the University of Florida Quest program. The successful candidate will also provide mentoring to BFA and MFA students to prepare them for successful careers in the industry.

The School is especially interested in candidates who bring a progressive perspective to actor training and who integrate movement, embodiment, and physical approaches into contemporary performance training. We seek an individual who will contribute to a student-centered community committed to professional development and scholarship, innovation and flexibility, and teamwork and collaboration.

The successful candidate will contribute to the recruitment and retention of BFA and MFA acting students within a vibrant professional theatre training program at one of the nation’s leading public research universities. Additional creative responsibilities include movement coaching for School productions, as well as fight direction and theatrical violence and/or intimacy direction for approximately four productions each academic year. There is also an opportunity to direct School productions.

The position also includes participation in school, college, and/or university service and other related duties as assigned. Typical teaching loads for tenure-line faculty in Theatre Studies & Performance are 5–9 credits per semester, generally distributed as 5–6 credits in one semester and 7–9 credits in the other. Most courses in the School are 2 or 3 credits.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker.

We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

SCHOOL OF THEATRE + DANCE:
The light-filled Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion is home to the School of Theatre + Dance (SoTD). The School’s international full-time faculty of 35 recognized artists and researchers, complemented by adjunct and guest faculty and staff, including full- and part-time professionals. The School offers MFA curricula in acting and in design, which includes scene design, lighting design and costume design;

BFA programs in acting, musical theatre, and theatrical production with concentrations in costume, digital media, lighting, scenic, and sound; and a BA with concentrations in general theatre, stage…